🎯 BITMO Needs You!
💬 Become a Tenant Board Member
🌟 No experience needed – just your voice and passion!

📅 Thursday, 29th May
🕟 Drop in from 4:30 PM
📍 Belle Isle TMO Office
🕓 Training: 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM

Want to help shape the future of the Belle Isle community?
Come along to a friendly info session to learn what it’s like to be a Board Member — a role that’s rewarding, confidence-building, and makes a real difference.

✨ We’ll support you every step of the way
✨ Perfect for anyone – no prior experience required
✨ Especially welcoming tenants aged 50 and under

📣 Limited spaces – book now!
📞 Contact Karen.Hoole@belleisletmo.co.uk to register your interest or call 0113 378 2182.
📬 We’ll get in touch to confirm your place!

Be involved. Be heard. Be the change.
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Do you live in Belle Isle?

Could you spare some time?

Do you want to help make a difference to services and the community?

Could you be a BITMO Board Member?

What is Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (BITMO)?

BITMO is a tenant-controlled organisation that has been responsible for managing Leeds City Council’s housing and estate management services in the Belle Isle neighbourhood of Leeds since 2004.  Services are delivered through a Management Agreement under the ‘Right to Manage Regulations’. BITMO manages the following services for the Belle Isle Estate (about 1,830 Council properties).

Repairs, planned investment, caretaking, lettings, dealing with anti-social behaviour, support to vulnerable tenants, Retirement Life (housing for older tenants), rent collection and tenancy changes and community development.

BITMO is an independent organisation whose Board of management has a permanent majority of local tenants and is elected by local tenants (who are its Shareholders) on an annual basis.

What are BITMO Board members responsible for and what do they do?

The BITMO Board sets the strategy, direction and policies for;

•            Letting empty houses

•            Repairs and maintenance

•            Rent arrears

•            Tenancy management

•            The GATE community activities and development

•            Maintaining the estate.

Board members do not run these services directly, instead there is a team of staff who report to the Board and run things on a day to day basis.

Board members attend about six Board meetings per year. These meetings are held in the BITMO offices on the estate.

 The Board has a Chairperson who is elected every year and manages Board meetings.  BITMO has two Vice Chairs who support the Chair.

Amongst other things Board members decide and discuss the following;

•            How the organisation spends its money

•            Priorities for the estate – including managing improvement work and contracts to homes and the estate

•            How the organisation is performing and how things can be best delivered – for example whether repairs are being done quickly enough and on time.

BITMO provides training to Board members.

Who can become a BITMO Board member and how does it happen?

BITMO has two types of Board members – Tenant Board members and Co-optees.

To become a tenant Board member you must be;

•            Over the age of 18

•            A Council Tenant in the BITMO area

•            A Shareholder of BITMO (with a simple sign-up procedure and no cost)

•            Elected at the Annual General Meeting

To become a co-opted Board member you must be elected by the Board itself.

Where can you get more information?

Please contact Karen Hoole on 0113 378 2182 or complete the form below and we can arrange for you to receive more information or to arrange a discussion with the Chair of the Board or the Chief Executive Officer.

Name *

First

Last

First line of your address *

Are you a BITMO tenant*?

• Yes
• No

*Leeds City Council tenant in the BITMO area

Can we contact you by phone?

Please give a phone number we can contact you on

Would you prefer to be contacted by email?

Email

Confirm Email

Submit

Click here to read the email sent to Belle Isle tenants in November 2024.

We want to provide different ways for tenants to have their say. You telling BITMO what is important to you is fundamental to successful tenant management. Please complete this short survey below:

Do you want to be asked your opinion by *

• Coming to a meeting at BITMO’s GATE
• Joining a focus group that meets “virtually” online
• Filling in online surveys
• A phone call from BITMO
• Going to a local meeting for your area

You can choose as many of these options as you like

What other ways could you give BITMO your opinions?

Name *

First

Last

First line of your address *

Email

Email

Confirm Email

Please give your email address if BITMO can contact you further about our consultation policy

Phone number

Please give your phone number of BITMO can contact you by phone or text about our consultation policy

Submit

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